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David Koch, billionaire industrialist and libertarian political activist, dies at 79
submitted 4 years ago by r721 from cnbc.com
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[–]magnora7 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun - 4 years ago (9 children)
Probably one of the top 10 people to have severely damaged US political discourse. However I hope he rests in peace. And I hope the US lower and middle classes can recover from the damage he and his brother have caused.
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[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun - 4 years ago (7 children)
No he damaged discourse by creating 20+ media companies and flooding the media with propaganda that aligns to his views, more aggressively than almost many billionaire in US history. He's one of the reasons there are no longer Unions in the US, among many other things
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[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun - 4 years ago (5 children)
I'll agree they had a bigger impact, but I think Koch had a more damaging impact. The splash wasn't as large, but the direction it went was far more drastic (very far right authoritarian anti-worker type of propaganda). Zuck may surpass that yet, but we'll see.
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[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun - 4 years ago (3 children)
He actively worked to destroy unions, and hollow out the middle class, to make himself and his brother more wealthy. I know what he did.
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[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (1 child)
https://cdn.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/issues/2011/04/img/unionmembershipratesweb-01.jpg
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/17/business/media/koch-brothers-time-meredith.html
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